Just for fun...,overheard on a college tour

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This is the most hilarious thread I have read in a long time! I need a big “WOW” button for half of these.

Oddest thing so far (only have done 5 tours):
Mom to daughter, serious face, during the dorm room viewing: “Oh look, at least this one has a peephole(in the door)”
Daughter gets very excited and takes three up-close peephole pictures, shows pictures to mom .
Mom nods very seriously and says “Make sure you keep those to compare later”.
Another Dad and I heard/saw the exchange and tried unsuccessfully not to look completely bewildered.
Our great tour guide clearly heard/saw too but kept a straight face and seemed unfazed.

All we could conclude is tour guides must see&hear a LOT of very strange things!

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I love these!
At Lehigh, when the whole group was gasping for breath after the billionth flight of stairs, the tour guide said “Nobody gets the Freshman 15 here!”

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This isn’t from a college tour. But it’s a related situation. When we brought our son to enroll/register at his college, we were all waiting in line to register. My wife overheard the conversation of two young women in the line just ahead of us. One of them declared to the other: “Isn’t it wonderful??! NOBODY knows us here!!!” They were apparently old friends or high school classmates. And they were gleeful at the prospect of making a fresh start.

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@awesomepolyglot similar at our Lehigh tour last year - but instead was more along the lines of “you may still get the freshman 15, but it’s going to be all leg muscle”

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My then 16-year-old daughter, watching a group of prospective students and families on a massive tour through Harvard Yard as we were visiting a friend in the area: “I don’t want to go here. It’s a tourist trap.”

Overheard on a tour of Claremont-McKenna: Mom: “It’s very loud here.” Mortified student: “Im sure the fire alarm doesn’t go off all the time, Mom.”

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@My3Kiddos We were touring a school the weekend by youngest turned 10. As soon as the AOs found out, they gave him ALL kinds of swag including as many tootsie rolls as he could stomach. Later on the tour, he saw a kid walking to class in pjs. Tour guide confirmed that yep, while not totally normal, wearing pjs to class is allowed.
He loudly announced “I am SO going here!!” LOL

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@momo2x2018 I am still laughing! Not sure that boy has realized the 6th grade was long ago and more mature manners (and humor) now applies.

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@exitstageleft about “This is a dry campus”. That is something under appreciated. It’s much more comfortable particularly if the school lacks air conditioners and you have asthma-especially in the summer.

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@HarrietMWelsch Oh, my! Would love to know.

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A parent on a tour of Boston University “Are there crossing guards to help students cross the street?” (Commonwealth Avenue)

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We really need an “LOL” button!

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@lostaccount ???. Too funny

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Once when working at a university, got a chuckle every few days listening as the tour guide bring groups across campus while earnestly painting a less than realistic pic of the university (nirvana). Yeah, all the courses are taught by profs;TAs only assist. All large classes have smaller recitations/labs, all faculty teach…Majority of coures are small (True but truth is that each student will only take a couple of those in the 4 years) and on & on…yada yada yada Nope. LOLOLOL!

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@awesomepolyglot yes they said you LOSE the freshman 15 here!

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During a tour at a tech-oriented, unbalanced male-to-female ratio school,
a parent in the group asked our female tour guide,

“What’s it like to be a female here at XXX?”
After giving some thought she said, “Well, the odds are good, but the goods are odd…”

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That’s the best one so far @hop!

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That’s an old line, so she had clearly perfected her “dramatic pause”

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On a tour at a very selective school, our tour guide told us she was admitted off the waitlist, on academic probation and changed majors three times.

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Middlebury on a blustery and snowy 5 degree day…

Me making small talk; Does it ever get warm here?

Heavily bundled guide; “We guarantee that it will be unbearably hot 2 days a year”. Dramatic pause followed by smile. “Move in and move out day.”

I was impressed by the wit.

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At a presentation by a group of students expounding on how taking gen-eds had helped them find their paths in life, one girl started talking about a Chinese course she had taken, but apparently it was so stressful that it nearly caused her to have a mental breakdown. We had the feeling that wasn’t the intent of the moderators in putting together the presentation!